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Michael Long

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Michael G. Long has written books for all ages on civil rights and peacemaking in mid-century America, including the stories of Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin, Jackie Robinson, and Mister Rogers. He lives in Pennsylvania.

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Three Lines in a Circle

The Exciting Life of the Peace Symbol

Author(s):
Michael Long

One line straight down. One line to the right. One line to the left, then a circle. That was all—just three lines in a circle. This bold picture book tells the story of the peace symbol—designed in 1958 by a London activist protesting nuclear weapons—and how it inspired people all over the world. Depicting the symbol’s travels from peace marches and liberation movements to the end of apartheid and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Three Lines in a Circle offers a message of inspiration to today’s c...
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Price: $18.00
Publication Date: 08/31/2021
0664262031

Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography

The Faith of a Boundary-Breaking Hero

Author(s):
Michael Long
Chris Lamb

Jackie Robinson believed in a God who sides with the oppressed and who calls us to see one another as sisters and brothers. This faith was a powerful but quiet engine that drove and sustained him as he shattered racial barriers on and beyond the baseball diamond.Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography explores the faith that, Robinson said, carried him through the torment and abuse he suffered for integrating the major leagues and drove him to get involved in the civil rights movemen...
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Price: $22.00
Publication Date: 03/10/2017
0664260470

Peaceful Neighbor

Discovering the Countercultural Mister Rogers

Author(s):
Michael Long

Fred Rogers was one of the most radical pacifists of contemporary history. We do not usually think of him as radical, partly because he wore colorful, soft sweaters made by his mother. Nor do we usually imagine him as a pacifist; that adjective seems way too political to describe the host of a children's program known for its focus on feelings. We have restricted Fred Rogers to the realm of entertainment, children, and feelings, and we've ripped him out of his political and religious cont...
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Price: $20.00
Publication Date: 03/13/2015
0664231381

The Legacy of Billy Graham

Critical Reflections on America's Greatest Evangelist

Author(s):
Michael Long

Perhaps no individual has had more of an effect on twentieth-century American Christianity than the renowned evangelist Billy Graham, whose work has been widely influential in arenas from the rising evangelical movement to the White House. Although Graham's influence on evangelicalism has long been recognized, Michael G. Long's The Legacy of Billy Graham is the first book to examine his impact on mainline Christianity and on American civil religion. With noted contributors inclu...
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Price: $35.00
Publication Date: 01/21/2008